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Exporting to jar file in eclipse

 
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Hi, I have an application in eclipse that has mail.jar and activation.jar added to its build path.

When I export the project into a jar file (windows xp) and run it, I get:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Authenticator

I'm not sure how it works, but I guess its using the java installed on pc which doesn't know about those 2 jars.
But they are exported in the jar file, so I thought it might work.

Is there anyway to fix this so I can run this jar on any computer that has java 1.6 installed? Thanks for any help.
 
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You should not put JAR dependencies in your JAR file. You should put them all in the classpath when executing your application.
 
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I doubt while exporting project to jar in eclipse, it will include the external jar files in it.
The wizard shows it will only include source files, class files and classpaths.
Where as you can use other options like
1) If its hard and fast to build it through eclipse. You can use eclipse plugin called as Fat-Jar. Find more information from this link Fat Jar Eclipse Plugin
2) My suggestion to your Apache Ant to build or export your project into runnable jar file.


colin shuker wrote:Hi, I have an application in eclipse that has mail.jar and activation.jar added to its build path.

When I export the project into a jar file (windows xp) and run it, I get:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Authenticator

I'm not sure how it works, but I guess its using the java installed on pc which doesn't know about those 2 jars.
But they are exported in the jar file, so I thought it might work.

Is there anyway to fix this so I can run this jar on any computer that has java 1.6 installed? Thanks for any help.

 
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in gererally java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is caused by JVM can't found the binary class file on runtime, JDK 1.5 does not include mail.jar and activation.jar in their standard install library. So you need invoke the two jar to your classpath when run java application.
 
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Thanks, I didn't wanna mess around with changing classpaths, so I used the Fat Jar, and it works well.
 
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